A cat missing for five years has been reunited with its owner after being found on an offshore oil rig. Workers contacted the Scottish SPCA on Thursday after they found the animal in a shipping container from Peterhead. Staff from the animal welfare charity collected the microchipped cat on Friday after he was flown back to the mainland by helicopter.He had been living as a stray around Peterhead Prison in Aberdeenshire. Dexter had been living as a stray( Scottish SPCA/ PA) Recommended Boris Joh

A man who died in a crash in Aberdeenshire has been named by police. John Grover, 62, was struck after a collision involving a silver Ford Transit van on the A90 Aberdeen to Peterhead road near Foveran on Thursday.He had been driving a silver Hyundai i40 but had stopped and was outside the car when the collision happened. The thoughts of everyone at Police Scotland are with John’s family and friends at this most difficult of timesChris Smith, Police Scotland Mr Grover, who was from the village o

ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND-JULY 31: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media during his visit to Shell St Fergus Gas Plant in Peterhead, for the announcement of further measures to protect the UK's long-term energy security, on July 31, 2023 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.... " The Biden administration courts Caracas, Tehran and Riyadh for oil, but not Houston.... Natural gas is not an enemy and certainly does not pollute like oil and coal." It is a big mistake to put all fossil fuels in one ba

A MESSAGE in a Sprite bottle set adrift by a girl aged eight saying “ I hate boys ” washed up 800 miles away 25 years later. Joanna Buchan, now 34, also included details about her school projects, her dog and how she loved collecting Blu Tack.... 6 It was discovered on the uninhabited island of Gasvaer, Norway, in 2020 — and the woman who found it contacted Joanna via social media 6 Joanna, now a doctor living in Australia, said: Doctor Joanna said:" At first I didn't remember the message in a

GB News host Nigel Farage had revealed he once had a falling out with Prince Charles over a speech to the EU Parliament.... Mr Farage was discussing the Prince of Wales with royal expert Ingrid Seward when the former MEP recalled the time he refused to give Charles a standing ovation in Brussels because of the Prince's view on EU integration and the climate.... Mr Farage told Ms Seward:" I refused to stand up." Mr Farage told the Majesty magazine Editor-in-Chief:" I had a bit of a fallout with

Under the trade deal agreed by Boris Johnson at the end of last year, the EU’s share of the catch from British waters will fall by 25 percent in stages over the next five years.... Following the end of that fishing transition period in June 2026, both sides will hold talks annually to discuss access.... But UK fishermen have complained of having to fight their way through bureaucratic red tape that has smothered them following Brexit. Alistair Carmichael, who has been the Liberal Democrat MP f

It has been claimed some 80 percent of the French fleet in the northern Hauts De France region are still awaiting the licences for the 6-12 British mile zone. But the UK Government rejects the claims and stressed they have licensed 1, 673 EU vessels for the UK 12-200 nautical mile zone under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU as of last month. The regional Government, headed up by Xavier Bertrand, claims fishing in the region supports 6, 500 direct jobs, including 850 seafarers and

A ￡22 billion taxpayer-backed carbon capture scheme will be successful despite years of setbacks for the green technology, Sir Keir Starmer has insisted. The Prime Minister announced funding for three projects in northern England that will capture the carbon dioxide emissions from energy production and store them under the sea.It is the fourth time a major carbon capture and storage( CCS) project has been tried in the UK, amid doubts that the technology can ever be commercially viable because of

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theView from Westminster email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... Please try again later{{/ verifyErrors}} Rishi Sunak has announced he is spending his holiday in California-where he owns a penthouse flat worth an estimated ￡5 million.... The prime minister also predicted he would explore a galaxy far, far away on his trip, by visiting a Star Wars experience at Disneyland....

FROM twisted killer Dennis Nilsen, notorious for stuffing body parts down drains to Peter Sutcliffe, who anonymously terrorised Yorkshire for five years, we take a look at the UK's worst killers. One murderer was even responsible of the deaths of up 260 people. Dennis Nilsen 6 Dennis Nilsen was said to have killed up to 15 young men and boys Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk Dennis Nilsenwas caged for life in 1983 after murdering up to 15 men when he picked them up from the streets.He s